Feeling alone among 317 million others: Disclosures of loneliness on Twitter

Increasing numbers of individuals describe themselves as feeling lonely, regardless of age, gender or geographic location. This article investigates how social media users self-disclose feelings of loneliness, and how they seek and provide support to each other. Motivated by related studies in this...

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Main Authors: Jamie Mahoney, Effie Le Moignan, Kiel Long, Michael Wilson, Julie Barnett, John Vines, Shaun Lawson
Format: Default Article
Published: 2019
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Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified
Information systems not elsewhere classified
Twitter
Loneliness
Self-disclosure
Social media
Information Systems
Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/38360
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